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Against sustainability : reading nineteenth-century America in the age of climate crisis /
Against Sustainability responds to contemporary environmental crisis not by seeking the origins of U.S. environmental problems, but by returning to the nineteenth-century literature and cultural contexts that gave rise to many of our most familiar environmental solutions. Chapters explore sustainabi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Unlikely Environmentalisms of Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- 1. Recycling Fantasies: Whitman, Clifton, and the Dream of Compost
- 2. Joyful Frugality: Thoreau, Dickinson, and the Pleasures of Not Consuming
- 3. The Problem with Preservation: Aesthetics and Sanctuary in Catlin, Parkman, Erdrich, Melville, and Byatt
- 4. Radical Pet Keeping: Crafts, Wilson, and Living with Others in the Anthropocene
- Coda. Embracing Green Temporalities: Indigenous Sustainabilities, Anglo-American Utopias.